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Wisconsin's confirmed cases of coronavirus increase by 180 to 1,730 on Thursday

State officials have said that despite Gov. Tony Evers' measures to reduce the spread through social distancing, they expect confirmed cases and deaths to continue to increase for a while — possibly weeks — because of the lag between the time of infections and onset of symptoms and testing.

Worldwide, confirmed cases neared 1 million at midday Thursday, according to a live tracker maintained by Johns Hopkins University. More than 225,000 of those were in the U.S., or nearly twice as much as the next-highest incidence, in Italy.

More than 50,000 people had died from COVID-19, including more than 5,300 Americans.

A statistical model created by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, at the University of Washington, projects that deaths will peak in the U.S. on April 16, with 2,644 deaths that day, while Wisconsin's peak will come later, on April 28, with 25 deaths that day.